This article is a chronicle of the history of the Western Rite in the Twentieth Century.

False Starts

In the 20th century, Western Rite Orthodoxy continued:

The dream of Western Orthodoxy did not die with Overbeck. In 1911, an Old Catholic bishop, Arnold Harris Mathew, entered into a short lived union with the Patriarchate of Antioch, under Metropolitan Gerasimos (Messarah) of Beirut. Even though this union was short-lived, it provided a model for future Western groups who would seek to return to Orthodoxy...